The Enlightenment

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• Somewhere in here, people learned about art again
• Medival Times
  • "Trading freedom for security"
  • Church provides for community consistency
  • Lords provides for protection
  • Church embodied truth
• Protestant revolution
  • Church embodied truch => bible embodied truth
  • Encouraged reading
  • Middle class grew, making more people wealthy enough to have time to read the bible
  • Feeling of "this is new and weird"
• Martin Luther's Theological Challenge
  • Encouraged reading bible by self
  • Encouraged independent thinking
• Intellectual Pluralism
  • 1550s-1700s
  • European universities => very independent
  • At crossroads of information: combining islamic sciences, Chinese tech, and new discoveries in Americas
    • Copernicus: 1543 — Helleocentric and not Geocentric models
    • Gallieo: Telescope
    • Kepler: Elliptical orbits, planetary motion
    • Newton: gravity, motion, calculus
• The Enlightment
  • What are people like in the state of nature?
  • Was there a time before government?
  • Can we extract first principles of society and politics?
  • Remember: how will democracy work?